{"id":12812,"date":"2015-03-24T19:58:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12812"},"modified":"2015-03-24T19:58:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T23:58:48","slug":"vanuatus-radio-services-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/vanuatus-radio-services-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu’s radio services restored"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vanuatu-Map\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Source: Radio Australia<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Broadcast communications that were knocked out by Cyclone Pam have been fully restored.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Francis Herman, the ABC’s program manager for the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme, says transmission engineer Steve White and local technicians have fixed Radio Vanuatu’s short and medium wave service to a level better than before the cyclone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Listen to the interview\u00a0on Radio Australia’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Radio Australia) Broadcast communications that were knocked out by Cyclone Pam have been fully restored. Francis Herman, the ABC’s program manager for the Pacific Media Assistance Scheme, says transmission engineer Steve White and local technicians have fixed Radio Vanuatu’s short and medium wave service to a level better than before the cyclone. Listen to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,433,3,43,1167],"tags":[3714,368,3713,3740],"class_list":["post-12812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-mediumwave","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-cyclone-pam","tag-radio-australia","tag-radio-vanuatu","tag-vanuatu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3kE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25045,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/radio-new-zealand-reports-vanuatu-asks-senate-for-reinstatement-of-abc-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":12812,"position":0},"title":"Radio New Zealand reports: Vanuatu asks senate for reinstatement of ABC shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"April 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Radio New Zealand\u00a0via Nigel Holmes) The government of Vanuatu sent a formal submission to the Australian Senate asking for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to resume its shortwave service. 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